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And a beautiful name to boot, thanks for the identification.

Would you ask her? I'm afraid if I do I may face repercussions, lol

Well they are actually fairly clean except for some recent saw dust in cutting down the damaged plum tree. My newest addition is a red XL-76, its a 58.1cc saw made from 1974 to 1984 for the Canadian market. It came with its original 16" sprocket tip bar and good chain. This is my first, but not last, Canadian made Homelite made by Terry Industries of Pointe Claire, Quebec. The top row are 58.1 cc saws, the second row is 77 and 82 cc saws, and the bottom row are 37-41 cc Models EZ, Super EZ, and Super Mini SL. The bottom row saws are about 11 pounds while the second row are 14.5 pounds, and the top row come in just under 14 pounds. Many of these models were made just a few years with two only being produced one year. I have another 25-28 models yet to acquire. Is 40 chainsaws too many? I might be able to cut it down to 35. My wife is a Saint, truly a Saint.

Hoping this brings me luck. He first landed on the front of my new van and stayed there a while before lighting on the garage wall

We saute the yellow squash and zucchini with a little olive oil in one of our three air fryers (best invention ever, real fried chicken without any oil), or we cut them up small with tomatoes, onions and cucumbers and add a vinaigrette oil. We (the wife) also make zucchini noodles and put Alfredo or primavera sauce on them, carb free Italian.

The tomatoes keep coming 12 cherry tomatoes again today and 8 Romas. The zucchini, squash, and cucumbers are really starting to produce. This picture is of Saturdays picking, but I had not picked in four or five days.

I put up tarps on three sides of the fence to protect the corn, but that didn't stop two tornado's from sucking the kernels off the cob, the green beans never produced a bean, the peppers and onions didn't produce or grow, but the radishes, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers did exceptionally well. We are getting a dozen cherry tomatoes and four or five Romas a day off three plants. I have four more Roma plants just starting to produce and ttwo beefsteak plants also ready to produce. I also have 5 other varieties about 6 inch tall and doing well. We got over two dozen large zucchini's this year and four or five times that of the yellow squash. I only had four cucumber plants, but we have gotten a couple dozen, about a fourth of them are odd short fat ones and the rest are beautiful 9 inchers. The two watermelon plants have produce four large Black Diamond melons over 25 lbs, we got two and the raccoons got two.

You think there is alot of plastic on garden tractors, take a good look at some of the farm tractors made today, all the "sheet metal" is plastic.

I picked these shelves up for 160.00 with looking casters. I'm going to order one more shelf, but for now its housing my old Homelites pretty well. I hope to have 40 more old Homelites of different years and models, so I may need a few more shelves. I'm not sure I risk asking the wife to park her car outside to make room for shelving and chainsaws. I already have three more than when I took this photo.

Yes, it is a "shaggin waggin".

Just an F1 tornado, winds just over 100-130 mph. My neck, back, elbow, knee, and shoulder are twisted up after the accident, the last thing I want to do is clean up storm damage, re-roof buildings, and replant the garden, but it has to be done, nobody pays me to work and I wont work for anyone.

The drunk driver that hit us rear ended my 3/4 ton van going over 100 mph, both our seat backs and seat belts broke and the heavy rear hitch was forced into the gas tank. The whole van buckled from the bottom and there was a 12 12" rise in the middle of the van floor. We were forced to borrow on the wife's 2013 Dodge Dart (12,000 miles on it) in order to get another van for me to drive. I found this one about 120 miles away, its a 1998 Mark 111 Dodge conversion van with TV and game console, front and rear heat and air, electric fold down rear bed, and just about every option one can think of, with a 140,000 on it it was a good deal for 2400.00. So far I'm getting 19 mpg on the highway and 15 mpg in the city on a 318 c.i. V8

I spotted these two just outside the patio door this morning. It was nice sight to see after the uprooted trees to my right and left and the missing roof from the well house, shop and barn. Recent tornado's also took all the corn, but spared most everything else. The bad luck started about two weeks ago with a drunk driver hitting us and injuring both the wife and I, and has continued ever since, yesterday we lost our 12 year old miniature schnauzer . I'm really hoping for better weather than two tornadoes a week and near misses on the road everyday.

He's even driving on the wrong side of the road, lol

I had something similar happen on my 42" Bolens tube frame deck. Someone had reassembled the arbor shaft and bearings in the opposite order and grease could not enter the bearing area, as the grease journal was blocked by a bearing, once the arbor was reassembled the proper way the arbor shaft was able to be greased. The prior spindle rebuild and repair prematurely failed due to the negligence of the previous mechanic. I call this Machinery Forensics, and much like these medical crime dramas on the TV, it takes an autopsy from a machinery detective to find out what the guilty party did to cause the machine to fail. I see this scenario play out on this forum more often than many other forums, because often you blokes want others to understand what happened, what caused it, and what the remedy is.

More Homies come home to roost, this makes 10 with a couple of more in the post. The first on is 1980 Homelite Super EZ Automatic, 40.9 cc, 16" power tip bar and auto oiler. The second saw is a 82 cc XL-903 made in 1969 only, 20" power tip heavy bar, and auto oiler.

Very unusual to see the creeper gear and Hi-Lo options on a Cub https://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/d/cub-cadet/6241563105.html

You may be able to buff it out with a good wax.

Your friends Rollo is much older as the the first picture shows a mid to late 60's Briggs and the engine on this beast looks to be a late 50's Briggs or Wisconsin.

I added three more vintage Homelite saws to my collection. A 1979 Homelite Super Mini SL Automatic. Sweet little 40.9 cc saw with vibration dampeners and automatic and manual override oiling with a 16" power tip bar. Also a couple of one yea only saws, a 1965 XL Automatic, like later Super XL Automatics, this has 58.2 cc and is the first model in the lightweight series of Homelite XL saws, it came with a 16" bar and is an automatic oiler and has a port to add a optional manual override oil plunger. Lastly, a 1969 XL-850, also an automatic oiler with option plunger port for manual oiling override and at 82 cc is almost the same size a a Honda 90 trail bike. This saw also came with a 20 inch power tip bar and new chain.

It is very disheartening to put so much labor and attention to details and have people let you down like this. They really don't care what you think or if you or anyone does business with them ever again, that's the mentality killing our entire civilisation.

My 1973 Allis 416 decks don't have grease points and the arbors are still working fine. The only thing that messed one up was the previous owner/mechanic cross threading the center spindle nut and not using the spacer washer allowing the pulley to wobble and destroy the key way groove

I smear some flux on the area where I am going to "weld" with my flux core wire welder and it seems to help a lot.

The 48" deck on my 1973 Allis Chalmers was needing some attention and new blades. While it was off I dug out in the barn and found I had three other decks for this tractor as well, another 48" and two 42" decks, one of the 42" decks was like new except for a wobbly center pulley that turned to be a can of worms. The previous owner/mechanic had used an air ratchet to install the top pulley on the center spindle and ended up cross threading the nut, keeping it from drawing up tight. This caused the key way to waller out the groove in the arbor shaft and ruining the shaft. Since they stopped making parts for this in 1974 I was lucky to have some extra decks and one even had a fairly new center arbor. I have three of these rare Allis built tractors and fortunately I acquired some extra parts and implements. I refurbished the 42" deck this week and will start on the 48" deck tomorrow. After taking these decks apart and cleaning/sanding them they get a coat of OSPHO, which is one of the best rust removers/reformers ever made, then two coats of etching primer with hardener and two coats of industrial enamel with reducer and poly converter hardener. Not bad for a 44 year old mower deck.

I will. This will be the first large frame in the que for restoration. It is all original, but there are a few dings to the fender pan and hood, that I may have a body man knock out. The most challenging aspect is finding a chrome muffler heat shield like, or similar, to the original. I used a Farmall Cub tractor muffler as it was the same size as the OEM one, just not quite as rounded on the ends, but if I can find an original heat shield or have one made it should fit nicely over this muffler. The taller narrow tires really allow for easy steering for a tractor this big. I've noticed that the wider tires you have the harder it is to steer.